> On June 23, 2014, 3:21 p.m., Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > I think there's a couple of problems with this approach: > > > > - This slows down startup for everybody, not just those who changed the > > setting. I'm not super-familiar with this, but isn't kcminit for this > > use-case? > > - Changing startup procedure this late in the game (Plasma 4.x has been on > > LTS for almost a year, feature frozen for much longer) > > - This particular KCM is dead in Plasma 5 (not really a reason to not "fix > > it" in 4.x, but the feature will be lost again > > > > Again, not super-privvy of the whole picture, but isn't color correction > > the correct solution here? > > Wolfgang Bauer wrote: > applykgammasettings is only called on login for people actually > installing kgamma (it's a separate tarball and separate package on openSUSE > at least). > There is no change to plasma's own startup procedure, and no change at > all when kgamma is not installed. > > kcminit is actually used by kgamma right now (it calls the same > function), but that only applies when the user enters the KCM. But the point > of this setting is to be applied automatically on login/startup. > > Wolfgang Bauer wrote: > PS: Sorry, kcminit does seem to be able to apply settings on login. I > seem to have confused it with something else... > I will have a look at this then.
Thanks for the hint! Kcminit works just fine. I just had to add some stuff to the .desktop file and rename/export the init function, so the patch is much simpler now. Apparently it worked the way it is in KDE3 and has been forgotten to be changed when porting/moving kgamma to KDE4? - Wolfgang ----------------------------------------------------------- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/118898/#review60795 ----------------------------------------------------------- On June 23, 2014, 7:01 p.m., Wolfgang Bauer wrote: > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: > https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/118898/ > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > (Updated June 23, 2014, 7:01 p.m.) > > > Review request for kde-workspace, Plasma and Marcel Wiesweg. > > > Bugs: 218668 > http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218668 > > > Repository: kgamma > > > Description > ------- > > KGamma's saved user settings are not applied on startup/login. The user has > to enter the KCM to apply them. > This makes it rather useless, as not even saving the settings system-wide > really works any more. (this requires an xorg.conf which normally doesn't > exist nowadays) > > This patch uses kcminit to apply these settings again on login. Apparently > this has been forgotten when moving/porting kgamma to KDE4. > > PS: As there seems to be no kgamma group and this is desktop-related, I > decided to add the kde-workspace and plasma groups for review. I hope that's > ok... ;) > > > Diffs > ----- > > kcmkgamma/kgamma.cpp 890ba99 > kcmkgamma/kgamma.desktop 3d87513 > > Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/118898/diff/ > > > Testing > ------- > > Set a gamma value in the KGamma KCM, logout/login (or reboot), Gamma value > gets set correctly. > > If there's no kgammarc file (or it contains no actual gamma settings), the > Gamma value is not changed. It stays at what is configured for X (or its > default). > > > Thanks, > > Wolfgang Bauer > >
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